Location FG325
Phone +852 3400 2061
mail amos.yung@polyu.edu.hk
Research Overview Communication is essential in our daily life. While all professionals are good communicators in their fields, communicating across different domains and professions requires different strategies, technologies, training, and cross-domain knowledge to repackage domain-specific knowledge for receivers from other domains and the public.
This interpersonal and interprofessional communication skill is an area to explore and is currently restrained by the limited number of academics who have research and working knowledge across multiple domains.
I wish my experience and work in interprofessional communication, collaborative knowledge repository construction, NLP and corpus linguistics can narrow this gap, create new knowledge and develop practical guidelines to improve real-world professional practices within and across domains.
Education and Academic Qualifications Doctor of Applied Language Sciences (Distinction), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Master of Arts in English Language Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Master of Business Administration (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in East Asian Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Academic and Professional Experiences Project Associate, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016-2021)
Research Interests
Interprofessional Communication
Collaborative Behaviours in Knowledge Repository Construction
Corpus Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
New Media
Research Output
Journal Articles
Cheng, W., Lam, P., Yung A. (In print) Cross-disciplinary perspective on research article introductions: the case of reporting verbs. East Asian Pragmatics
Conference Proceedings
Mingyu Wan, Rong Xiang, Emmanuele Chersoni, Natalia Klyueva, Kathleen Ahrens, Bin Miao, David Broadstock, Jian Kang, Amos Yung, Chu-Ren Huang. (2019). PolyU CBS-CFA at the FinSBD task:Sentence Boundary Detection of Financial Data with Domain Knowledge Enhancement and Bilingual Training. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, p.122-129
Conference Presentations
Yung, Amos. (1 Jul 2021). A corpus approach to examine the functions of pragmatic maker “you know” in spoken discourse, 17th International Pragmatics Conference
Yung, Amos. (8 Dec 2017). Understanding the asynchronous collaborative writing process of English Wikipedia pages, International Conference on ESP, New Technologies and Digital Learning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (7-9 Dec 2017)
Esteem Measures
Honorary appointments
Professional Mentor, The University of Hong Kong (2012-2015)
Professional associations
Beta Gamma Sigma, US (life member, inducted in 2013)
International Pragmatics Association
Awards and honours
Humanities Doctoral Scholarships, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2014/15, 2017/18)
Deans’ Honours List, The University of Hong Kong (2010-2012)
